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Stephen Schleicher

Stephen Schleicher began his career writing for the Digital Media Online community of sites, including Digital Producer and Creative Mac covering all aspects of the digital content creation industry. He then moved on to consumer technology, and began the Coolness Roundup podcast. A writing fool, Stephen has freelanced for Sci-Fi Channel's Technology Blog, and Gizmodo. Still longing for the good ol' days, Stephen launched Major Spoilers in July 2006, because he is a glutton for punishment.

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I really did not like the sword lightsaber. Unless it is someone’s attempt at building a lightsaber that isn’t a Jedi, Dark Jedi or Sith, I just thought the little exhaust flame type side things looked like something out of a parody video.

They have being using those lightsabers like medieval swords since forever, but they lacked the cross guards to (among other things) push/disarm the opponent once they locked blades.

It *always* ended up in the dumb “both fighters push to see who is stronger”, also seeing how the character with the blade was likely the same actress that plays Brienne in GoT they might have wanted to make her a blade that would allow to use her current sword skills.

I just don’t see it, sorry. Of course, it could just be the way it was shown in the clip and I might rethink once I see it a little clearly.

If they looked a little more blade-like (like those in the EU art) and less like flames, or if they were positioned a little differently (tilted upwards a little to be closer to the main blade), then it might be different. As it is, the guard has a reasonably large space where it wouldn’t stop an opposing blade that could simply cut off the emitter (similar to how some lightsabers in the EU were sliced just below where the blade emerges to make them useless). I do agree that it is a much more practical concept, but I just don’t like the way the one they made looks.